People know that if you wake up with a bat in your room you should get treated for rabies immediately, right? Just FYI.
Oh yeah.
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Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Nov 28, 2006 6:44:53 am PST #3374 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Jesse - Nov 28, 2006 6:46:25 am PST #3375 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And Hil comes through with Actual Information! Right on.
Why am I so tired? A coworker just commented on it. No good reason!! Other than staying up too late on Sunday, but whatever.
megan walker - Nov 28, 2006 6:56:04 am PST #3376 of 10007
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
People know that if you wake up with a bat in your room you should get treated for rabies immediately, right? Just FYI.
Because it could have bitten you without you realizing it?
Jessica - Nov 28, 2006 6:56:48 am PST #3377 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
For people who like cheese and traveling - you can earn AA miles buying fondue kits or snack wedges. I don't know offhand how much the cheese costs, but the travel blogosphere has jumped on this promotion like hotcakes so I imagine it's a pretty good deal, if you don't mind buying a lot of cheese.
Trudy Booth - Nov 28, 2006 7:04:30 am PST #3378 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Because it could have bitten you without you realizing it?
Yeah. Bat bites can be two little pinpricks. Rabies is 100% avoidable with the shots and 100% fatal once the disease develops... so you get the shots.
And they're not in the abdomen anymore.
bon bon - Nov 28, 2006 7:05:09 am PST #3379 of 10007
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Because it could have bitten you without you realizing it?
Pretty much. It's the advice of the CDC: [link]
megan walker - Nov 28, 2006 7:09:11 am PST #3380 of 10007
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yeah. Bat bites can be two little pinpricks. Rabies is 100% avoidable with the shots and 100% fatal once the disease develops... so you get the shots.
Aaah. Let's hope that A) my bat is still not in the basement and 2) that if it is, it does not make its way into my apartment. In any case, I've decided that all laundry will be done during the day for the near future.
amych - Nov 28, 2006 7:09:27 am PST #3381 of 10007
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Trudy, is it terrible to say that I thought of you as soon as the question came up? I mean, I would understand if you don't want to be thought of as Rabies Girl forever. (Although Batgirl has a ring to it...)
Trudy Booth - Nov 28, 2006 7:10:56 am PST #3382 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
We can go with Batgirl.
Topic!Cindy - Nov 28, 2006 7:13:10 am PST #3383 of 10007
What is even happening?
I would call parallel universes and extra dimensions speculation not science. There is no experimental evidence that they exist and until there is, there is no reason to think they are reality. It can be interesting to speculate what the math may imply, but a theory that cannot be subjected to experiment isn't in the realm of science. I would say if a scientist is claiming something without any empirical evidence to be true, then that is faith. If a scientist is just claiming that something is implied but not provable, then it's just speculation based on science.
Isn't that what the ID proponents are doing?
Key word there being "currently" -- in many, if not most cases, it's not that such theories are inherently untestable, it's that we don't have the tools yet. (Solution: bigger toys!)
Isn't that what the ID proponents say?
Isn't calling it a theory quotation marks right there?
I think (am not sure) that in scientific usage, the word theory has much smaller, lighter quotation marks, and much more weight behind it, doesn't it? I mean, isn't that what people are mocking when they mock the way evolution-deniers emphasize that it's the "Theory" of Evolution?
Don't scientists use the word hypothesis, for the quotation mark meaning theory?
(That's an earnest question, ita; I only ever retain half of what I read about those conversations.)